HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal (King Abdullah’s nephew), is also the Vice Chairwoman of the Board of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation. She spoke at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, which invited world leaders to discuss employment, sustainability and women’s issues.

“…Actress, producer, and occasional chauffeur Jayne Amelia Larson offers a funny and insightful memoir about the time she spent as a driver for members of the Saudi royal family visiting Beverly Hills, detailing her invitation inside one of the world’s most closely guarded monarchies.

“….the nanny who ran away in the airport the moment she was handed her passport, the stories Larson shares are bizarre, poignant, and illustrative of the profound contradictions and complications that only such massive wealth can create…”

“…A ‘gold-digging’ male model dumped by a Saudi Arabian princess after she caught him with two other women attacked her chauffeur in a rage, a court heard yesterday….”Saudi Arabian princess Sara Al-Amoundi, it has been claimed
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In what may prove a particularly incendiary cable, US diplomats describe a world of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll behind the official pieties of Saudi Arabian royalty.

“….More than 150 Saudi men and women, most in their 20s and 30s, were at the party. The patronage of royalty meant the feared religious police kept a distance. Admission was controlled through a strict guest list. “The scene resembled a nightclub anywhere outside the kingdom: plentiful alcohol, young couples dancing, a DJ at the turntables and everyone in costume.”……”….One young Saudi told the diplomat that big parties were a recent trend. Even a few years ago, he said, the only weekend activity was “dating” among small groups who met inside the homes of the rich. Some of the more opulent houses in Jeddah feature basement bars, discos and clubs. One high-society Saudi said: “The increased conservatism of our society over these past years has only moved social interaction to the inside of people’s homes.”http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-cables-saudi-princes-parties

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WikiCable: On rampant Saudi royal corruption

Ambassador Wyche Fowler Jr., appointed as ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by President William Jefferson Clinton, offers up a devastating portrait of the royally spoiled offspring of King Fahd.The SECRET 30 November 1996 dispatch provides a rare and unsparing look at the rampant corruption and sybaritic lifestyles of the scions of a regime that rose to power on the austere dogmas of Wahhabism.

One notable section out of many:

OTHER WAYS SOME PRINCES OBTAIN MONEY INCLUDE BORROWING FROM THE BANKS, AND NOT PAYING THEM BACK. WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK (NCB), WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN VIEWED HERE AS THE ROYAL FAMILY’S BANK, SAUDI BANKS GENERALLY TURN ROYALS AWAY UNLESS THEY HAVE A PROVEN REPAYMENT TRACK RECORD. PRINCES ALSO USE THEIR CLOUT TO CONFISCATE LAND FROM COMMONERS, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS KNOWN TO BE THE SITE FOR AN UPCOMING PROJECT AND CAN BE QUICKLY RESOLD TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR A PROFIT.

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“….Despite its oil wealth, Saudi Arabia features many of the underlying demographics that have helped spark rebellions in other Arab nations. Almost half the population is under the age of 18 and, unlike in other Gulf states, some of which boast close to full employment, 40% of 20- to 24-year-old Saudis are out of work….”http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/24/saudi-arabia-king-accused-bribery

“….Three huge BAE [BAE’s position] deals with the Saudi royal family kept Britain’s sole warplane manufacturer in profitable existence in the 1960s and 70s. All were corrupt, according to the files.

The Americans warned at the outset:

“Saudi requests for arms were not based on considerations of national security as much as private pressure by those most likely to profit from arms sales[…]
We should both exercise considerable restraint in dealing with this artificial stimulation of Saudi appetites.” [document]

But successive UK governments, desperate for foreign exchange, took no notice.
The deals have always been shrouded in official secrecy. But we have pieced together enough from recently released archives to reveal the truth.

The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations

by Daniel PipesNational Interest
Winter 2002/03
“…Starting in 1991, the U.S. military required its female personnel based in Saudi Arabia to wear black, head-to-foot abayas. (This makes Saudi Arabia the only country in the world where U.S. military personnel are expected to wear a religiously-mandated garment.) Further, the women had to ride in the back seat of vehicles and be accompanied by a man when off base…”
“….In April 2002, as Crown Prince Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, the country’s effective ruler, was about to travel across Texas to visit President George W. Bush, an advance group talked to the airport manager in Waco (the airport serving the President’s ranch in Crawford) “and told him they did not want any females on the ramp and also said there should not be any females talking to the airplane.”[2] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Waco complied with this request and passed it to three other FAA stations on the crown prince’s route, which also complied. Then, when queried about this matter, both the FAA and the State Department joined the Saudi foreign minister in flat-out denying that there ever was a Saudi request for male-only controllers….”
“…On my first tour of Saudi Arabia, working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Americans were ordered to remove all decals and photos of the American flag. . . . With my last employer, providing defensive missiles to the Saudis, officers came through on an inspection and ordered removal of all family photos picturing wives and female children. . . . Customs went through a friend’s wallet, confiscating a photo of his wife in hot pants.[21]…”

“…The court announced that it has delivered Al Saud corruption files to two British newspapers including The Guardian and The Financial Times, AlArabOnline news website reported.

The papers will expose Saudi princes’ role in illegal contracts in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Sources close to The Guardian wrote in the paper’s website that the files, which make charges on members of the ruling Al Saud family, would have reverberations on Britain’s relationship with the Saudi regime.

The claims against Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, son of former defence minister Prince Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, raised from the sale of $6.7 million (£4.3 million) in shares.

Court judge Justice Morgan said the dispute had thrown up a “nuclear mushroom cloud” of litigation.

“….Willie Morris [biography], the British ambassador from 1968 to 1972, could not stand the Saudis. They were “less lovable than some other people”, he said.

The border guards were “rude”. Despite their stern official religion, “one can find a minister incoherently drunk in his office before noon”. Their oil billions led to a “corruption of character which enables the Saudis to regard the rest of the world as existing for their convenience”, he wrote in his valedictory dispatch. [document]

He went on:

“The Saud family [profile] regard Saudi Arabia as a family business […] The sheer effrontery is breathtaking of a prince who will keep on talking about rights and wrongs, when you know (and he probably knows you know) that his cut may be 20% of the contract price.” [document]

The world of arms sales in Saudi Arabia was, he said, “crooked”:

“The question of corruption is obviously crucial … the ‘system’ is at best an infernal nuisance, and it is potentially explosive – a time bomb under the regime […]

It is a jungle inhabited by beasts of prey in which one must move with caution and uncertainty. The magnates are (justifiably) suspicious of one another and their agents.” [document]

Prince Sultan [biography], he recorded, “has, of course, a corrupt interest in all contracts”. [document]

Nonetheless, Britain colluded with this medieval regime. More than a decade from the late 1960s, the archives reveal, government arms salesmen authorised bribes that totalled more than £100m – at least £500m in today’s money. Much was paid out by one company: BAE [BAE’s position].